aggressor
IPA: ʌgrˈɛsɝ
noun
- The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
- a fictional state created by the United States Army for maneuver and military exercise purposes in the 1950's
- a citizen/subject of the fictional Aggressor state
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Examples of "aggressor" in Sentences
- I mean, he used the word aggressor about 20 times.
- No violator of international law, no aggressor, is to be rewarded by mild compromises.
- First, she blocks the door (as she has done since December, 1941) to the Western advance of an aggressor from the Far East.
- In an election year, the congressmen had been most worried about the political fallout if Israel were identified as an aggressor.
- But if the aggressor is an SUV, the car driver's relative chance of dying rises to 30 to 1, because the hood of an SUV is so high off the ground.
- Now the aggressor is not going to announce he is about to aggress, keeping his whole armed forces in the neighborhood of the great Russian Supply bases.
- The death of the aggressor is not merely connected with another means than is intended, but it itself, and as death, is useful and judged necessary to your defense.
- So we must have sufficient forces in being to turn the aggressor from the risk that his first violent blow would not lead to the complete success which he must achieve.
- We regard it, however, as a last and if these cases do arise, we are convinced that such force must not be employed until it can be established beyond doubt that an act of violence or aggression has been committed, and then only when the guilt of the alleged aggressor is universally acknowledged.
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